Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority
9:00 am
Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source
As Ms Feehily knows, I have learned under a freedom of information request from Ms Hall that he actually did a report which he forgot he had done, not that there is a whole lot in it apart from some redactions. It did not really deal with the matter it was supposed to deal with. I got another email from Ms Hall which was very interesting, from 2016. It was sent to the authority and was a statement from An Garda Síochána.
The opening line of the statement from Mr. Nugent states that due to restrictions with the Garda email system, such as email size and storage, the Commissioner occasionally used a Gmail account to ensure that Garda business was discharged effectively. This completely flies in the face of what Mr. Nugent told the committee when he appeared before it. He told us first that he did not do a report and then, in his statement on 21 November 2016, he told us that the Commissioner was using her Gmail account.
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